Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 19:27:19 -0600 From: Michael Porter <ocean@wavefront.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: make -j<n> Message-ID: <3478D7F7.AEFFE9E0@wavefront.com>
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I've read a lot lately about speeding up make worlds. On my P75, overclocked to 90, with 40 megs ram, I get just over 7 hours. I finally manned make to look up what the "-j" did. Ok, so it sets the number of simultaneous jobs. Two questions: 1) What's the default number of jobs? I'd guess one. 2) How should I determine what the best number is? It's bound to be different on different systems, so does anyone have any general rules? Rules like 486-2 586slow-3 etc, or something like that. Thanks! Michael Porter ocean@wavefront.com port0095@tc.umn.edu
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